Steve Jobs once in his interview admitted that he "trusts insane futurists and their long-term forecasts more than market analysts." How the world is seen in 25 years and beyond known forecaster in the field of technical progress and science, the site
Ray Kurzweil
The American futurist has become world famous due to its accurate predictions based on the latest trends in science and technology. This "technological medium" foresaw not only the "seizure" of the world with cellular telephones, fax machines, robotics and the Internet, but also predicted the collapse of the USSR and the failure of authoritarian governments to global information. Today, his futuristic forecasts are even more impressive. He sees the future scientific and technological progress as follows:
- Energy resources. In the next few years, solar energy will almost completely replace oil and oil products. According to Kurzweil's forecasts, the low cost of solar watt will gradually supplant costly oil, gas and coal. In addition, the mass consumption of solar energy will make it useless to use power plants.
Housing, equipped with solar panels, will be energy-self-sufficient. Most of the technical devices and devices can be fed from the sun or other alternative energy sources, environmentally friendly and independent of external factors and indicators. This optimistic forecast from Ray Kurzweil may become a reality by the end of 2020.
- Medicine. A new decade will be revolutionary in medicine. The main "physicians" will be nanorobots, possessing super abilities. Help they will be able to "permanently", "living" in the human body. In their competence will be the functions of delivering food to the cells and removing harmful substances before studying the work of the brain. For ten years they will learn to monitor human health, cruising through blood vessels, and to prevent the risks of serious diseases. Kurzweil prepares mankind for the fact that in the future all diseases will disappear and longevity will become the norm for civilization.
Although the era of longevity seems incredible to many, it is more than possible today. European doctors talk about a new generation, in which there are babies with a large age potential. They have all chances to live with sound mind, memory and physical health up to 150 years. Medical scientists argue that these people in their 90 years will be socially and sexually active today's 40-year-old "old men".
- Brain. By 2030, the line between computer and human will be less noticeable. A personal computer will become something like an inanimate ubiquitous assistant, communication with which will be possible through speech and gestures. Moreover, Ray Kurzweil is confident that much of human thinking will cease to be "biological." The brain will receive the possibilities of a hard disk - knowledge lost through amnesia or age-related changes can easily be restored by loading the missing information into the head.
- Artificial Intelligence. By 2040, non-biological intelligence will become so powerful that human natural thinking will lose all advantages over robotics. From home helpers intelligent machines will move to all areas of life. For example, they will become full masters of the transport and agricultural sector. Nanotechnology will come out on the highway and exclude the risk of driving cars by people on highways, and food products will be created from thin air, however, like everything else.
- Nanosystems. Ray Kurzweil in his scientific works expresses the opinion that the artificial mind will merge with the human with the help of a cyberimpplant, and by the end of the XXI century nanosystems will represent a significant part of the world's population. Of course, there are those who do not want to robotize their human nature, but they, like rare biological specimens, will be on the verge of extinction. And if you're lucky, the robots will bring them into the human Red Book, and will be in every way to patronize, as an example of the "deity" that gave birth to them. But maybe not lucky ...
Interesting predictions of the distant future from futurists
Jan Pearson, futurist, Head of Futurizon (UK)
"By 2050, computer technology will reach such a high level that human consciousness can be completely transferred to a supercomputer. At the time of the death of a person, a special apparatus will scan the brain of the dying person, rewriting the complex electrical potentials of the neurons of his brain in the model of neurons in the computer. Thanks to this "digitization", a person, not noticing the moment of death, will smoothly move into virtual reality, where he can live forever. "
Richard Watson, futurist (Great Britain)
"Technologies will accelerate the escalation of violence. Wait for the advent of smart bullets that can be programmed for a specific image. And criminals, and victims by 2050 will exist on the Internet era of web 4.0. "
Juan Enrique, futurist, director of the company Biotechnomy (USA)
"Under the influence of Internet services, a new plasticity of the brain appears. Giant information flow, its duplication in different sources, different channels of access to it - all this does not allow it to be forgotten. At the subconscious level, any information remains with us. The impossibility of oblivion and a huge flow of information will change the properties of the brain: it can "process" a thousand times more operations than now. The Internet thereby begins to control us and our capabilities, and not we are the Internet. "
Igor Bestuzhev-Lada, futurologist, sociologist (Russia)
"There will be a computer program that, from childhood, and maybe even before the birth of the child, it will be programmed by a choleric or sanguine person, a brunette with blue eyes or blond hair with a height of eighty meters. A person will cease to be a person, go into another category. At this stage, a person will become an enemy to himself. "